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It is worst when Jocasta is the one to summon the ghosts of Corinth.
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Your Father’s Disease by spikeface
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Medea - Euripides
3 May 2013
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A retelling of Euripides’ Medea, for this prompt on the ISS Enterprise Kink Meme.
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Cassandra's Song by mothwrist
Agamemnon - Aeschylus, The Oresteia - Aeschylus, Greek Tragedy, Greek and Roman Mythology
24 Mar 2013
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What if Clytaemnestra recognised another victim of Agamemnon in Cassandra? What if Cassandra too hungered for vengeance, for blood to be spilled for her people and her city? What if Clytaemnestra looked over Agamemnon's body and saw her own thirst for vengeance mirrored in Cassandra’s eyes?
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i've got a feeling this year's for me and you by citruses
The Oresteia - Aeschylus, Greek Tragedy, Greek and Roman Mythology
30 Dec 2012
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mother inspires fear by her very presence, could make the hardest ganglands thug wish he'd never been born. persuasive, too. could talk her way out of a prison cell -- hell, she really did, once, if the stories are true. but this is beside the point.
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Don't Step on the Butterfly by Chajazzhands
Macbeth - Shakespeare, Julius Caesar - Shakespeare, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Williams, Antigone - Fandom, A Doll's House, An Enemy of the People
1 Oct 2012
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"What are you, the Ghost of English Classes Past?"
In which a reluctant hero (who actually caused the problem in the first place) is drafted to save the multiverse, and it turns out that the things you learn in English class are more important than you'd think.
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Femslash100 Greek Mythology Cycle by Ilthit
Greek and Roman Mythology, The Iliad - Homer, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Charlie's Angels (Movies), Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern, How to Train Your Dragon (2010), I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Sandman, The Librarians, Antigone - Sophocles, Phryne Fisher - Kerry Greenwood, Leverage, The Devil's Mixtape - Mary Borsellino, Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Star Trek: The Original Series, The Song Is You - Megan Abbott, Criminal Minds, Downton Abbey, Lois Lenz Lesbian Secretary - Monica Nolan, Modesty Blaise - Peter O'Donnell, Galaxy Quest (1999), Sherlock (TV), thirteen (2003), Sumerian Mythology
4 Mar 2012
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Drabbles (100 words, except for one double-drabble) on the theme of Greek mythology. Some are actually based on ancient Greek texts, and others are fanworks for other fandoms that fit the themes.
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There is only one murder in the bath at Mycenae, and from it something more than friendship grows.
Contains: murder, mention of rape and sexual harassment.
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Everyone In My AP Lit Class Is Dead by Ember Nickel (primeideal)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Stoppard, Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot, Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad, Benito Cereno - Herman Melville, The Hollow Men - T. S. Eliot, Hamlet - Shakespeare, Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, The Music School - John Updike, Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde, Dubliners - James Joyce, Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
31 Jan 2012
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From Kurtz to Okonkwo, Jocasta to Gertrude, Alfred Schweigen to J. Alfred Prufrock, death is just the beginning. Originally posted June 2009.
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When, and how, will the sacrifice be enacted?
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When I was a very small child my Aunt Semele was struck by lightning and died.
[A podfic of this story exists here.]
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Five Futures Kassandra Saw and One that She Could Not by prozacpark for metonomia
Trojan Women - Euripides, Greek and Roman Mythology
20 Dec 2010
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to know your fate is to be a slave to it.
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Ονειρων προσφερεις μορφωμασιν (Appearing Like Images of Dreams) by Quinara
Agamemnon - Aeschylus, Greek and Roman Mythology
10 Oct 2010
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In the end, Cassandra's not even there.
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Ανους μεν ερχηι, τοις φιλοις δ'ορθως φιλη (You Go in Folly, but to Your Dear Ones Truly Dear) by Quinara for laeria
Antigone - Sophocles, Greek and Roman Mythology
10 Oct 2010
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Ismene does not believe in death.
[Warning for issues of suicide.]
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Written for the prompt "bruises." Takes place after Pentheus has Dionysus imprisoned for insulting him.
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She knew the moment she saw the vision that doom was coming.
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- Part 2 of Greek Myths Series
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Clytemnestra is no longer a pawn.
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retelling of Clytemnestra's tragedy, hopefully making her a more sympathetic character
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Jocasta's Soliloquy by Bette for Toastzombie
Mythology - Greek and Roman, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
25 Dec 2009
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A retelling of the Oedipus myth (per Pendar, Aeschylus, Euripides, and general myth but largely informed by Sophocles) from Jocasta's point of view.
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She tends to the bath herself.